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Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 6:30pm, Includes Weekend Work on Rotation (Approximately 1 - 2 weekends per, month with a designated time off during the week).

Reporting to: Deputy Warehouse Manager.

Department:Warehouse.

About Us

Our love of creating an amazing visual spectacle and being part of something special, drives who we are, and what we do, every day.

At Neg Earth Lights, we are at the top of the game. Voted favourite lighting rental company in the UK for the last 5 out of 7 years. We deliver quality and innovation on time, every time.

We believe that everything is possible. Whatever we do, we do with respect and passion within an exciting and inspiring community where everyone can excel. Using our collective creativity and resourcefulness, we truly believe that we can turn challenges into opportunities. The show must go on!

Come and experience the show from the best seat in the house. Get your hands on the latest and best quality equipment on the market and work with world renowned Lighting Designers. Set your career goals and follow your career development path while being part of a fun, inviting and diverse company culture.

About You & the Role:

Our team is rapidly expanding and an exciting opportunity has arisen for a positive, organized and driven Warehouse Operations Supervisor.

The Purpose of the role is to oversee smooth running of all operations in the warehouse, as directed by the management reporting line, and to ensure that movement of equipment in and out of the warehouse is accurately and timely recorded.

Are you a great communicator and collaborative problem solver? Do you have a passion for excellence? Can you communicate comfortably across a broad spectrum of people? Is building and maintaining strong relationships really important to you, even in challenging times? Are you a resilient self-starter who prioritises like a pro to stay ahead of the game? Are you organized accurate and have great attention to detail? Can you respond calmly and maintain focus when faced with the challenges of last minute changes? Can you deliver on time, every time? Do you inspire others and create an environment where others are motivated to excel?

You’ll play an essential part in your team and company success story by:

Overseeing Operations and Resources

Assisting Deputy Warehouse Managers in day to day supervision of warehouse operations and supporting logistic of all inbound and outbound equipment in timely fashion and recorded in the warehouse systems appropriately.

Following the location control and tracking of sub hired equipment and Neg Earth Lights’ rental equipment within the warehouse and supervise and execute agreed location plan for prep and de-prep activities.

Working efficiently with Deputy Warehouse Manager to ensure of timely deliveries and collections.

Assisting the Senior Warehouse Operative to:

Correctly log all equipment prior to load.

Return tipped equipment efficiently into the Warehouse Management System (WMS).

Move returned equipment to its correct location.

Locate missing and damaged equipment when applicable.

Assisting the Deputy Warehouse Manager in working in conjunction with Project Handlers, Warehouse Management and Crew to facilitate the effective and efficient provision and support of all crewed jobs and dry hires for which Neg Earth Lights is the supplier.

Ensuring Load Lists are completed correctly for all crewed jobs and the relevant information is entered into the appropriate systems timely after loading.

Ensuring stock levels in appropriate systems accurately reflect the equipment held in the warehouse.

Acting as a NELL point of contact for operations and logistic inquiries during allocated weekends and take ownership for servicing NELL projects during the weekends by following agreed processes in order to resolve and escalate appropriately when required.

Working Safely

Following Safe Systems of Work as required by Risk Assessments, supervising residual risks to acceptable levels and ensure all warehouse operational activities encourage efficient and suitable working environments for employees, crew and freelancers. Monitor compliance with H&S internal procedures and processes by warehouse teams and other departments.

Assisting in ensuring COSHH and PPE requirements are observed and applied throughout the Company.

Assisting in ensuring freelancers and crew adhere to Neg Earth Lights’ procedures and Health and Safety requirements at all times.

Assisting in investigating incidents and accidents as they occur, document findings and work with the Health and Safety Manager to prevent heir reoccurrence.

Supervising the loading and tipping of all equipment at Neg Earth Lights, ensuring compliance with the HSE at all times.

Requirements

Your Skills, Qualifications and Experience

We can’t live without your:

Proven experience from a similar industry based role.

Proven and demonstrable supervisory experience.

Great operational and logistics skills and enthusiasm for technology and entertainment / lighting industry.

The use of a stock control system.

Advanced MS Office applications skills– Outlook, Excel, Word

High level of accuracy, with impeccable written and verbal communication skills

Ability to work autonomously whilst being a real team player.

Willingness to take ownership and accountability and see things through to completion.

Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, demonstrating resilience, flexibility and ability to maintain positive relationships.

Ability to communicate efficiently and target communication to all relevant channels with high level of accuracy.

The show must go on so providing a 7 day operation/service is key. Therefore the ability to work paid overtime on occasions, including weekends is essential.

Nice to have, but we’ll be happy to offer additional training and support in:

Knowledge of lighting and rigging equipment.

Experience with Preparation and repair of lighting and associated equipment.

Experience working in equipment rental house.

Experience using Easy Job and WMS Software.

We are also curious about your:

Valid FLT Licence

Fist Aider Certificate

Valid Rigging Certificate

Valid UK clean driving license

Valid IPAF Certification

Does this sound like you? Do you love challenge and are ready for an amazing career in a vibrant industry?

Get in touch! We can’t wait to hear from you!

Equal Opportunities:

We are an Equal Opportunities employer. We’ll be happy to help with any specialist arrangements in order for you to apply or interview for this role. Let us know and we’ll do our best to make all possible adjustments.

Note:

We really appreciate you taking the time to read more about Neg Earth Lights and the role. We try very hard to reply to each applicant. As we receive a large number of candidate responses, unfortunately we are not always able to get back to every candidate individually. Therefore, should you not be contacted within 20 days after the submission of your application, then your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You will however be contacted if you have been shortlisted to the next stage.

We would like to encourage you to follow our LinkedIn, Facebookand website for other vacancies so that we can look forward to your application for other roles that may be of your interest in the future.

We wish you all the best of luck!

Benefits

What’s in it for you?

Working with exceptional people, the latest technologies and being a part of a team making remarkable events happen.

The opportunity to continue to grow and develop whilst working alongside a skilled team in a supportive culture.

Christie Lites is the leading independent Entertainment Lighting and Rigging supplier in North America, with a passion for excellence, we are packaging innovators with unrivalled delivery. Since bringing our unique brand to Europe, our rapidly growing UK operation has an exciting new opportunity for a Sub Rentals Co-ordinator based at our Coventry office.

Working with the Sub Rental team supporting Rental Reps and Show managers in the UK and North America, you will be coordinating the equipment sub rental process end to end, providing cost estimates to the Account reps, qualifying requests for confirmed shows, sourcing and procuring the required equipment and minimising equipment purchases. In addition, facilitating all associated administrative tasks. This position requires strong IT, negotiating and communication skills to succeed. A high level of proficiency in Excel and Word are a must.

If you are interested in applying for this role you will have past experience in an equipment rental house or venue technical environment and familiarity with entertainment lighting and rigging systems.

To apply for this position please forward a copy of your CV with covering letter to rwain@christielites.com. We will acknowledge receipt of your CV and if we are able to progress your application then we will be back in touch with you to discuss your application and interest in more detail. All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

Founded in 2001, Siyan Ltd is a Lighting Design and Rental company servicing concerts, tours, festivals and special events. Situated in High Wycombe in the foothills of the Chilterns, we supply events across the UK, Europe and beyond all year round. We have an extensive stock of lights, lighting desks, cable, rigging, dimming and distro, which you’ll be part of the team prepping, de-prepping and keeping in good working order.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so we’ll work with you to understand and achieve your career goals, helping you to develop your career within a professional and friendly environment.

About the Role:

As Warehouse Manager you will be crucial to the continued success of our company. You will lead and motivate our warehouse team, ensuring equipment is prepped to a high standard for dispatch and put away promptly upon its return. Your time will be split between the shop floor and office, where you’ll work closely with our projects team as well as our customers, suppliers and transport companies.

The role includes the following responsibilities

Day to day management of the warehouse team, working to critical deadlines.

Maintaining a clean and safe warehouse environment

Hands on involvement in warehouse operations

Working closely with Project Managers to manage logistical support

Liaising with visiting contractors to ensure company procedures and standards are maintained

Our standard working hours are 9-5:30 (inclusive of a 30 minute paid lunch break), and due to the nature of the entertainment industry, overtime will be part of the job including early starts, late finishes and some weekend working.

About You:

Essential:

Previous experience in a warehouse/logistics role

Experience of stock control including use of a computerised stock control package

Physically fit and capable of lifting flight cases and loading and unloading vehicles

A professional, customer focussed attitude

Excellent attention to detail and timekeeping

Happy to work flexibly, with some early starts and late finishes, as well as occasional weekend working

Desirable (we can provide additional training in all these areas.):

Basic electrical knowledge

Counterbalance forklift licence

Previous experience in the entertainment industry

Full, clean driving licence and experience driving long wheelbase vans up to 3500kg

Equal Opportunities:

Siyan is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to making an inclusive environment for all our employees and are happy to make any reasonable arrangements in order to help you apply for this role. If you need any assistance or for us to make any special provisions, e-mail us at info@siyan.co.uk

Thank you for taking the time to read about us and about the role. If you’re interested in finding out more about Siyan, please get in contact with us at info@siyan.co.uk or by calling 01494 532820.

To apply please send a CV and a paragraph about why you think you’re the right person for the job to info@siyan.co.uk. We will try to reply to everyone, but if you haven’t been contacted within 14 days of your application then you have not been successful on this occasion.

Reporting directly into the Inventory Manager the Service Technician will be responsible for maintaining and ensuring our inventory is in tip-top condition, full working order and ready to be packed up to go out to the site. You will focus on maximising in-service time while ensuring compliance with HSE regulations.

Day to day responsibilities?

Performing equipment repairs on a wide range of lighting, AV, electrical and rigging equipment whilst maintaining company/industry standards and to the deadline

Liaising with manufacturers when a warranty repair/replacement is required and arranging with the transport department where necessary

Ensuring periodic inspections, such as LOLER, PAT and Ladder are in date and any overdue items removed from service and inspected accordingly

Ensuring the hiring team is kept up to date with repair time frames to prevent unnecessary outsourced hires

Performing scheduled maintenance and firmware updates

Minimising downtime of equipment and ensuring all repair items are dealt with efficiently

Maintaining a working knowledge of a diverse range of lighting and AV equipment and working to enhance and improve that knowledge with new models and new industry standards, practices, and technologies

Undergoing training where required

Recording the details of all repairs within the service module, including parts, labour and transport

We are looking for that special someone to help project managers in our busy technical department. You’ll be based in our London office, working with producers on large events as well as managing your own client portfolio. If you have solid experience as a technical project manager with a focus on AV, then this could be for you

What does a typical week look like?

We don’t really have a typical week here at Event Concept, but you may end up:

Working with our production teams to provide technical support and quotations

We are looking for that special someone to help project manage our busy technical department. You’ll be based in our London office, working with producers on large events as well as managing your own client portfolio. If you have solid experience as a technical project manager with a focus on lighting, then this could be for you

What does a typical week look like?

We don’t really have a typical week here at Event Concept, but you may end up:

Working with our production teams to provide technical support and quotations

Event Concept are looking for a Production Manager. Our Production Managers provide the essential logistical back-up to a diverse Account Management team who are working on a wide variety of events

What does a typical week look like?

While no two days are the same the role will see you working across the following areas

Production Manager on larger events. Working with the account managers from the initial client brief, throughout the design and planning process and the onsite delivery of the event. To include Plans, schedules, supplier selection and management, technical coordination

Production Manager for installation of smaller events with a large logistical challenge.

Liaison between the Account teams and Crew booking, attending the weekly operations meeting and overview of all events delivered by Account Management to ensure crewing and logistics are fully covered whilst being efficiently staffed.

Scheduling support for Account team

Cad plan support for Production team

Briefing of contractors and suppliers and supervision on site

Who are you?

You are a team player with a flexible, enthusiastic approach.

You’re a strong communicator, both in person and in written content

You don’t get phased under pressure, you’re the consummate professional. Even when something isn’t going quite accordingly to plan, you remain calm and get the situation sorted

Good working knowledge of AutoCAD and/or Vectorworks

Awareness of Health & Safety both in the pre planning stages and the implementation

Strong experience of scheduling and budgeting

Why Event Concept?

Event Concept are a leading creative event production agency based in South Bermondsey. We apply specialist knowledge in event design and technical production to create engaging experiences on any scale.

We started life 20 years ago as a technical production supplier, we have grown today to a multi-disciplined team of over 100. We are incredibly proud of our people, who work tirelessly to ensure that we can provide award winning events to a client list that boasts many household names.

We aim to provide an environment where our people can develop and evolve in the same way we have over the years.

Our vision statement is simply: For the Love of the Show … we are looking for people who share our love of live shows and who want to add their individual skill set to our already phenomenal team.

We are recruiting for both permanent staff and fixed term contracts between 1st May to 30th September (we are still interested in hearing from you if you are only available for some of this period). Please make clear when you apply whether you are applying for a permanent or fixed term contract.

About Us:

Founded in 2001, Siyan Ltd is a Lighting Design and Rental company servicing concerts, tours, festivals and special events. Situated in High Wycombe in the foothills of the Chilterns, we supply events across the UK, Europe and beyond all year round. We have an extensive stock of fixtures, lighting desks, cable, rigging, dimming and distro, which you’ll be part of the team prepping, de-prepping and keeping in good working order.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so we’ll work with you to understand and achieve your career goals, helping you to develop your career within a fun and friendly environment.

About The Role:

We are looking for proactive and efficient people who would like to work in a busy but friendly environment. The role would involve work in the following areas:

Counting equipment onto and off jobs, packaging it neatly into flightcases for hires, or putting it back in the correct part of the warehouse when it comes back

Testing, cleaning and coiling cables

De-taping and cleaning truss

Painting truss and other metalwork as required

Assisting with loading and unloading of trucks

Carrying out stock checks and assisting with company stock control procedures

Our standard working hours are 9-5:30 (including a 30 minute paid lunch break), but due to the nature of the entertainment industry, some overtime will be required, including early starts, late finishes and occasional weekend working.

About You:

Essential:

Attention to detail and high standards of workmanship

Good level of written and verbal communication

Numerical skills (a large part of the job involves accurately counting items)

Ability to load and unload trucks and carry out other manual handling tasks safely

Flexible attitude to overtime as required, including some late nights, early mornings and weekends

Ability to work under pressure and meet critical deadlines

Ability to follow company H&S procedures and safe systems of work.

Desirable (but we can provide additional training in all these areas.):

Basic electrical knowledge

Counterbalance forklift license

Full UK driving license

Previous experience in the entertainment industry

Equal Opportunities:

Siyan is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to making an inclusive environment for all our employees and are happy to make any reasonable arrangements in order to help you apply for this role. If you need any assistance or for us to make any special provisions, e-mail us at info@siyan.co.uk

Thank you for taking the time to read about us and about the role. If you’re interested in finding out more about Siyan, please get in contact with us at info@siyan.co.uk or by calling 01494 532820. Anyone applying or interested in applying is welcome to come and visit us first in order to find out more about our company.

To apply please send a CV and a paragraph about why you think you’re the right person for the job to info@siyan.co.uk. We will try to reply to everyone, but if you haven’t been contacted within 14 days of your application then you have not been successful on this occasion.

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